Friday, June 03, 2016

When called racist, the alt-right deflects by pointing to social justice warriors. Look at all these groups openly antagonistic to white people, they exhort. Look at the attacks on so-called "white privilege" and white men and white culture. How is it racist to push back against that?

They have a point, to an extent. Logically, it cannot be racist to oppose racism. To the extent social justice warriors are racist, and they are, they should be vehemently opposed. The problem with the alt-right is that they do not fundamentally oppose racial identity politics. They merely substitute one brand of it for another.

The Alt Right is not merely white identity politics. If it were, one would not see a Red Indian and a Brown Persian supporting it and embraced by it. But the Alt Right does accept racial identity politics, and for much the same reason we accept gravity.

Fun fact: while I was working at the St. Paul Pioneer Press, I would occasionally pitch in and edit a few pieces in the features section. One of them was a video-game review by this guy named Vox Day. Another fun fact: when I was writing for AOL in the late 90s, John Scalzi was my editor. So I've had tangential connections to both people on the absolute ends of the GamerGate spectrum. I've followed both as the years went on. The best thing about criticizing either is that neither cares a whit.

Can confirm, for myself, at any rate. But James doesn't seem to grasp the simple and straightforward fact that history fades, whether we will or no:

If you asked me how I feel personally affected by the Holocaust, it would be about a one. Because I am not personally affected. But I care, because it's a defining event of the 20th century. How important is it to remember it? Ten. Ten because it shows what the State can do. Ten because it shows where tribalism and race-hatred and Jew-hatred lead. Ten because it shows how a rational, cultured people can go off the rails entirely, except for the ones they build to the death camps. Ten because it shows how nationalism can curdle into the smelliest hatreds. Ten because it shows that technology does not bring enlightenment. Ten because it shows how smart guys with good degrees and a wife and kids at home are perfectly capable of designing the means to commit boundless atrocities.

And that is all very well. But the serious problems the world faces today are not the result of a surfeit of nationalism, but rather a shortage of it. Pendulums always swing too far, and Holocaustianity has been used to justify some deeply pernicious acts that are bound to lead to tragedy, such as the Immigration Reform Act of 1965.

And while James sneers at the inevitable indifference of today's teenagers to events that took place before their parents were born, I can't help but note the fact that his reasoning is based on the idea that the Holocaust was "the defining event of the 20th century", which is obviously false. Not only is it not in the top 10 for the century, it's not even #1 for the Jews.

That's one telling line. The other is Vox's distinction between Europeans and Jews.

I find that tremendously amusing. I live in Europe and that is not my distinction, it is a distinction that is made by both Europeans and Jews.

When called racist, the alt-right deflects by pointing to social justice warriors. Look at all these groups openly antagonistic to white people, they exhort. Look at the attacks on so-called "white privilege" and white men and white culture. How is it racist to push back against that?

Heh. This guy hasn't even met the alt right yet, that's a transitioning cuck "liberals are the real racists" response.

It matters not whether the beneficiaries -- or victims -- of your collectivist authoritarianism are white.

It matters to the beneficiaries -- or victims -- Walt.

What matters is whether you are a collectivist authoritarian and therefore categorically evil.

Oh, do fuck off. That ship sailed donkey's years ago. The only political choices on the menu are Big Government that hates you and actively seeks to make your kids a despised minority in their own country, or Big Government that doesn't.

Everything else is just masturbation.

That is why #NeverTrump conservatives remain indignant toward the Republican presumptive nominee for president, because he personifies a fundamentally un-American and immoral paradigm that is in essence no different than the regressive left.

Don't even get the old folks started on music again. We already determined they don't possess the combined brain power to listen to 3:30 seconds of audio recording without foaming at the mouth like rabid Pavlov's dogs. Start criticizing the fucking beatles and they'll stroke out.

Isn't PJMedia a political/cultural website from the jewish perspective? What the black writer says is what their jewish owners believe. The website owners are trying to use a black writer to hide that fact. "Hey, we didn't say it, that black writer said it!"

"A member of the jewish tribe doesn't like white identity politics" is more accurate.

I assume the #1 20th century event for Jews would be the creation of the State of Israel. That may be true on the whole, but it is not so for US Jews according to Pew (2013). In answer to the question of the essential elements of being a Jew, 73% agreed on "remembering the Holocaust" while only 43% replied "caring about Israel".

WWII is more than half-again as distant in history than the Boer War was in 1945. The Boer War, the second British war of extermination, where the British invented the concentration camp, and re-introduced the starvation of women and children as an explicit tactic to European warfare.The British generals of WWII were the lieutenants of the Boer War.

How many German Jews of the 1930s cared in the least about the plight of Boers in 1900?

The SA Parliament just passed a law to allow the expropriation of White farmers. How many American or Israeli Jews care in the least?

So many things were leading to war in 1914 that, had Franz Ferdinand not been shot, something else would likely have touched off hostilities. The Hapsburgs were desperate to contain anarchy and inter-ethnic strife; France and Russia were allied against Germany and the Hapsburgs, with France still bitter over the outcome of the Franco-Prussian War; England was increasingly anxious to contain an ascendant Germany, and the US was eager to demonstrate itself to be a world power. Of all the participants Italy probably had the greatest ability to stay out the war, but they thought siding with the Allies would work to their advantage.

I have always been curious as to why Vox Day lives in Europe? It appears the ongoing European cultural war is more volatile than the American one. And, might that ongoing strife, make for a stressful life?

Even lowball estimates of the Holocaust of Germans by Americans and especially Soviets estimates 14 million expelled 3 million killed after the war. Higher estimates, like that of Ralph Keeling, put it at 11 million; nearly twice what even the highest, most certainly exaggerated number of Jews killed by the Nazis was.

It happens slowly at first, just an article or two with a lefty slant. I mean libertarianism is all about taking what you want from the left and leaving the rest behind like a political salad bar, Right?

So you have to have a few token lefty articles just to prove that you aren't a knuckle dragging Scudderite. Free Speech is all and everything to the Libertarian. So you keep around the token lefty, to prove how inclusive you are. (*Please note: that libertarians NEVER keep around a token conservative.*) Their besetting sin is that they view progressives as (by in large) their intellectual and social equals. They do not feel that way about social conservatives. In their pride Libertarians need someone to look down on.

I know. I used to be one.

Anyway, the token lefty hangs around long enough to begin making hiring decisions

And then before you know it something that was all about free minds and free markets, was all about Anthropogenic Global Warming and sucking Neil Degrasse Tyson's dick.

The US Federal Assault on Mt. Carmel was more defining than the Holocaust. 48 Israel was more significant, and no, the Holocaust was not the driving motive behind that. Cuban Missile Crisis/MAD was more defining. Bloody Sunday was more defining. Titanic was more defining. Berlin airlift. Korea was more defining because it "legitimized" the UN. Kitty Hawk. Motion pictures. RADAR. Radio. All more defining.

"But this was an example in recent memory of a country turning against its own, using mass media to dehumanize the victims and prep the national psyche for mass hatred, then not only choose to eliminate the subhuman population but invade other countries so it would be easier to finish the job."

Actually, Nazi Germany invaded other countries first and then start killing the Jews. Mass killings of Jews started only in summer of 1941. Before the war, the Nazi encouraged the Jews to leave Germany and only in 1941 Jews were barred from leaving Germany.

Until 1941, the Nazis wanted to deport (but not exterminate) the Jews from Europe. After the defeat of France, there was the idea to deport all European Jews to Madegascar, a French colony at the time. The plan was not carried out for the obvious reason - Germany did not control the high seas (and lacked the ships necessary to carry out the task).

6306's list is a good place to start but geopolitics isn't everything. The Pill, Mao/Stalin/Lenin, the Internet have to be on the list. M/S/L killed tens of millions of people and gave us Bernie...and Reagan.

I partially agree in that like global worming anti narratives being burned, walking on the moon may be officially denied because it is proof that affirmative action is a failure, the same year NASA got an affirmative action department was when we stopped going to the moon.

I have always been curious as to why Vox Day lives in Europe? It appears the ongoing European cultural war is more volatile

Same reason we fled die verse city for Whitopia, you will want to be somewhere possibly stable when civilization falls. No point in being the only puff in the gayborhood with guns during the nigapocalypse. Look at the chimp out videos from when the food stamp system went down for 8 hours in 16 states on 10-12-2013, and imagine what it would be like if it hit the beginning of the month when Uncle Sam hands out benefits.

I first heard of Lileks back around 2002 when I first started listening to the Hugh Hewitt show (Yes, I used to listen him, but back then I still thought the system could be changed from within the GOPE). Started reading Lileks blog after that. It really wasn't my thing, but it was occasionally fun to look at all the old stuff he would scan in, I believe it was vintage matchbox covers? Anyway, there's a time to put away childish things and pay attention to the signs of the times. If you're a white male in America in 2016, drop all the PC nonsense (holocaustianity included)and lift, train, and dedicate yourself to what's on the horizon. If you've seen the pics from Trump's San Jose rally, you know it's coming. And for those that still hold out hope of whom they may perceive as their natural allies (law enforcement), watch those cops in San Jose sit there and do absolutely nothing! You're on your whitey.

Ten because it shows how a rational, cultured people can go off the rails entirely, except for the ones they build to the death camps.

This is why it's important to point out that the concentration camps were not death camps, no one was gassed with slow-release insecticide in shower rooms with wooden doors, and the reason for shaving their heads, giving them those uniforms, and having insecticide and real gas chambers on the premises was to stop typhus lice.

Usually when the wooden door gas chamber lampshade hoax is exposed, the next claim is that it doesn't matter because Jews still died. But then it's right back to the utter inhumanity of the shower room, while the murders of two million+ East Germans through systematic starvation after the war ended is either their just desserts for the Zyklon B or just more deaths in a war and incomparable with lampshades and soap.

Ten because it shows how nationalism can curdle into the smelliest hatreds.

I'm a regular reader of Lileks as well, his 'bleat' blog, not the paper column. From that I can glean three things:1. If he mentions Somalians at all, he's indifferent to them.2. He adores ''white bread America''.3. He'll probably outlive major metro newspapers - such as the one he writes for. And yet he hopes his daughter will follow in his footsteps.

I watched a revisionist view of WWII. Don't get cranky I like to hear different views to mine.

Long story short it's gist was that

* Germany didn't "invade" Austria. Austria willingly joined Germany & Austrian troops crossed the border at the same time

* Germany invaded Poland due to some city within Polands borders was filled with predominantly Germans whom voted to join Germany in a referendum and the Poles were basically ethnically cleansing them

* The UK Declared war on Germany because of this

* Germany got wind of the Soviets plan to allow European forces to exhaust each other and then swoop in for the kill. So Germany struck first. This caught the Soviets off guard and the Soviets were in an offensive posture gearing up for their invasion and not set up to defend hence their early losses.

I also heard horrific stories about the treatment of Germans that I'd been completely unaware of. I hope that they were made up. Yes I know that the Germans committed atrocities as well. But being the "bad" guys that's expected. The "good" guys? I have higher standards.

Anyway I didn't watch the whole thing. I'm on YouTube, I don't have the attention span to watch lengthy "documentaries" when there's new "insta-justice" clips ;-)

...but it isn't actually Jews who promote that slandering of nationalism anyway. Communists and cuckservatives gleefully participated in the gas chamber hoax with the intention of slandering nationalism, quite apart from Jews trying to gin up sympathy to support their ethno-nationalist state.

A good 3/4s of the 20th was an increasingly dreary dreadful death march into socialism. If we had continued to advance at the 19th century's rate, where humanity rode in on horseback, sickly and unwashed, and left healthy, clean, lit by electricity, driving an automobile, and talking on the phone, then we would doubtless have our Jetson flying car by now. Leftist really suck!

BTW, in his Friday Bleat, he talks about all the construction in Minneapolis - including the new stadium.From last Friday:The Edition main apartment is almost completely clad, and I'll have more on that later. The view of the park will be nice. But everyone with a view of the park will always be looking at the dark glowering Shard God. A lot of people really hate the new stadium. I like it. I almost love it. Like nothing else; a great glacier on the edge of downtown.I don't care, what I'll see of it will the interior in photos/video.

the 19th Amendment and the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 belong in there somewhere

Personal, Progressive Income Tax on one's own human labor and endeavors and life-blood.

...but it isn't actually Jews who promote that slandering of nationalism anyway. Communists and cuckservatives

Yes it is, you're being redundant - and of course, the Alt-Right is well aware of the White traitors' participation and partnering. Of course a Jew is gonna Jew after all, but the traitors....

National polls showed that when England and France declared war on Germany, in 1939, less than 10 percent of our population favored a similar course for America. But there were various groups of people, here and abroad, whose interests and beliefs necessitated the involvement of the United States in the war. I shall point out some of these groups tonight, and outline their methods of procedure. In doing this, I must speak with the utmost frankness, for in order to counteract their efforts, we must know exactly who they are. - Chuck Lindbergh (!) Sept 11 (!?) 1941 Des Moines speech (America First)

And the proper term is "subjected" because the holocaust never happened and yet children the world over are subjected to this lie.

No one was gassed in world war 2. And no 6 million jews died. This shit has been disproven thoroughly.

And when you finally learn these facts you just have to sit back and wonder about a people who have bilked trillions of dollars and infinity guilt from the good people of this world based upon bullshit they themselves made up.

A prediction for this century: jews will be exterminated...with extreme prejudice.

I also heard horrific stories about the treatment of Germans that I'd been completely unaware of.

The entire eastern front was a slaughterhouse, truly Satan rampant. Ukranians were overjoyed when the nazis showed up and opened the churches again.

I can't, for the life of me, understand why Churchill didn't sue for peace and stop bombing civilian targets in Germany. Hitler wanted nothing to do with Great Britain and was opposed initially to any sort of bombing attack at all on them. Maybe the folks behind the Balfour Declaration were pushing Churchill and friends?

I do see why Hitler went for Moscow now: the germans were close and making huge strides in mid-summer. But if he had consolidated power in the eastern half of Poland it would be a different world. Hell, if the weather had held for a few more weeks, it might be a different world.

My opinion about Germany and Poland is that Germany could have saved itself a world of hurt down the road if it had satisfied itself with freeing a sliver of German-speaking territory and flinging the Polish Army against the wall, sort of like what Russia did to Georgia in 2008.

Taking over the whole country didn't help their cause. If Russia had decided to take over and annex Georgia rather than satisfy itself with abstracting Abkhazia and South Ossetia, WW3 would have started already.

@52. KonaI think there is some truth in those points you listed, as well as some over-stating the case.

1. Austria (Anschluss) - partly true. A large segment of the native populace did not see the Nazis as invaders. There was never any serious resistance to the occupation either.

2. Debatable. Hitler colluded with Stalin to divide Poland. Stalin's armies invaded from the east 2 weeks after Hitler's entered from the west (by which time the Polish army and government were finished). The whole Danzig argument seems like a fig-leaf to me.

3. The UK (100% owned by the cartel since 1815, controlled since 1688) declared war on Germany for invading with Poland due to UK's unenforceable treaty with P, but curiously did not do the same to Stalin, who likewise invaded Poland. Why didn't they? Keep in mind that Uncle Yusif still hadn't entirely rid himself of the usual suspects connected to the owners of UK via a double-cross worthy of anything the Gambinos could have pulled off (hence his admiration among Russians even down to this day - though they were never gotten rid of entirely).

4. I've read that before and it's not impossible given Stalin's utterly treacherous character. Regardless, Stalin's forces were wet caught off guard. Hitler bit off way more than he could chew though. Obviously Napoleon's disaster in 1812 failed to register with H., who thought himself a military genius.

5. Not only were large numbers of German civilians slaughtered by Americans after the war, but plenty of Catholics who fought the Nazis were likewise murdered as "collaborators" by communists, their friends and allies in places from France to Poland to Austria and elsewhere. The "accidental" death of Patton was very suspicious and likely had some connection to his opposition to this murderous activity. As Joseph McCarthy discovered partly some years later, the Roosevelt and Truman regimes were heavily infested with Marxists from top to bottom, the truth of which was verified after the fall of the USSR resulted in release of KGB documents.

Maybe the folks behind the Balfour Declaration were pushing Churchill and friends?

Only reasonable conclusion. Weren't both Patton and McArthur pissed post war, realizing what they had participated in, and the likely logical conclusion of such and results?Didn't drunk, fat boy, son of a slut whore (hhmmm, where have we seen this?) Churchill acknowledge "we slaughtered the wrong pig"?

Like, we know, right? I just wish Western Media would quit emphasizing it decade after decade after decade. At least switch to one of the other Bolshevik murder stories. Statistically they have to be on a scale of 10-1 vs Nazi ones at least.

How far your pendulum swings is simple physics: The longer and heavier your pendulum is, the more significant your swing. It's just math. You know what I mean, and your mind just can't let go, can it? I am Groot.

Almost completely off topic- All major wireless carriers have had widespread service interruptions since about 5 PM or so. My cricket service dies at 1737. (Last message received and couldn't phone out.) Anyone willing to bet it's not an electronic terrorist attack?

I can't, for the life of me, understand why Churchill didn't sue for peace

The war saved his political career. Even with the war he was still an unpopular leader. Without the war he would have been just another failed politician, a mere footnote in history. Without the war he would have lost the prime ministership very quickly.

And Churchill loved war for its own sake. He had done as much as anyone to drag Britain into the First World War.

If we were making a list of the Top Ten Villains of the 20th century Churchill would have to be near the top of the list. Ahead of Roosevelt even.

Basically the author talks about Chrome getting rid of the Coincidence Detector extension. The rest of the article manages to be pretty funny and damning to jewish pundits and their 5th column behavior.

I agree with stevee with regards to Walter Hudson, he's a deflection shield.

I don't know if anyone else said anything but antibiotics, spaceflight, harnessing the atom, DDT and other effective insecticides, quitting using effective insecticides. All seem a tad more important. Sure the holocaust was bad, but my own brother died after catching mosquito borne diseases that DDT had almost wiped out. Millions more have died from that.

"Ten because it shows how a rational, cultured people can go off the rails entirely, except for the ones they build to the death camps."

He missed the only one that mattered, because every civilised society from the dawn of history has committed genocide. The interesting thing about the Holocaust was the way in which the Eichmann managed to bring German organizational efficiency to the process .

Only the Christian republics even repent of it. You would think that someone with a Lutheran education would at least recognise human nature. Or at least entropy.

What makes the Holocaust significant to everyone, is Denmark.

Somehow both the Jews in Denmark and the non-Jews in Denmark got it right.

Figuring that out, in a dog-eat-dog world of sin would be really useful.

"Even were the Shoah story true, these people either can't add or choose the deaths that are and are not important on a principle that they fail to admit out loud."

As a college age subscriber in the 90s, the pages of The New Yorker magazine informed me that the Spanish Inquisition was the second greatest atrocity in human history, because it was the dry run for the Holocaust.

What was the death toll from that? 4500 over four centuries? You know what?: f**k the J*ws.

"Ten because it shows how a rational, cultured people can go off the rails entirely, except for the ones they build to the death camps."

He missed the only one that mattered, because every civilised society from the dawn of history has committed genocide. The interesting thing about the Holocaust was the way in which the Eichmann managed to bring German organizational efficiency to the process .

Only the Christian republics even repent of it. You would think that someone with a Lutheran education would at least recognise human nature. Or at least entropy.

What makes the Holocaust significant to everyone, is Denmark.

Somehow both the Jews in Denmark and the non-Jews in Denmark got it right.

Figuring that out, in a dog-eat-dog world of sin would be really useful.

praetorian: "I do see why Hitler went for Moscow now: the germans were close and making huge strides in mid-summer. But if he had consolidated power in the eastern half of Poland it would be a different world. Hell, if the weather had held for a few more weeks, it might be a different world.

Note to self: easy there, monday morning quarterback..."

And Manstein sat on his bridgehead on the-- what's that damned river?-- with his Panzerkorps with Army Group North for nine days when he could've pressed on to Leningrad, which was defenseless.

Imagine Leningrad already in Germany's hands by mid-July! The psychological shock to Soviet morale! Hell, with that and the Battle of Kiev, Hitler could've wrung Brest-Litovsk 2.0 out of Stalin without Operation Typhon.

But regardless, it would've freed up vast resources for whatever contingency played out. And if the Elefants at Kursk had only had an auxiliary machine gun! . . .

1. 1903. The Wright Flyer give man wings: Nothing seems impossible to American ingenuity. This event establishes the technological optimism of an era.

2. 1916. The Battle of the Somme breaks the Heart of Europe.

3. 1919. Light is seen to bend around the sun during an eclipse, providing firm proof for Einstein's Theory of Relativity. The intellectual life of the West discovers the universe does not follow clear and intuitive logic; ironically a deep mistrust of reason settles over the intellectual landscape.

4. 1913 Woodrow Wilson overturns the Constitution and enacts the first activist, interventionist Presidency, which permanently relegates the Congress to an insignificant role. Democracy in America ended in spirit.

5. 1917 The Russian Revolution. The triumph of evil crushes the spirit of Europe.

6. 1929-39. FDR, a second activist, interventionist president, turns what should have been a four-month market correct to government intervention in the credit cycle into a permanent state of affairs.

8. 1965 Griswald v Connecticut makes fornication a Constitutional right, and abortion and sodomy-marriage inevitable. Normalization of pederasty to follow. Morality, as a major force in the American character, ends.

9. 1969. Apollo 11. All future generations will quail at the Space Age, and some will pretend it never happened.

10. 1989. Fall of the Berlin Wall. Communism ended as an intellectually viable form of insanity, except in America, where it is embraced with tremendous enthusiasm, and in China, where it is embraced tepidly. Francis

10.5 In the aftermath of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, Francis Fukuyama declares that all human struggle over the proper form of government and economy is over. Bat-winged and bronze-faced Erinyes emerge from fiery Tartarus and drag Mr. Fukuyama screaming into a point in midair above Central Park, in full view of horrified thousand of witnesses, and there he is torn to pieces for his intellectual hubris and parochial shortsightedness, and his blood sprinkled, for some reason, across the Twin Towers.

Okay, I made up that last part myself. But the Erinyes are not to be trifled with, and intellectual hubris is, after all, the defining leitmotif of the bloody, hellish, morbid Twentieth Century.

5. 1917 The Russian Revolution. The triumph of evil crushes the spirit of Europe.

Inaccurate and ahistorical. There were actually three 'Russian Revolutions':a) The 1905 liberal revolution that overthrew absolutist monarchy.b) The 1917 February revolution: a masonic/satanist leftist revolution.c) The 1917 October revolution, a reactionary peasant revolt.

It's the 'bourgeois' February revolution that was a triumph of evil: Kerensky instituted universal suffrage, legalized homosexuality, destroyed the military chain of command, appointed heresiarchs as bishops, pandered to the most insane of identitarian and ethnic grievances, etc., etc.

Of course, none of this 'crushed the spirit of Europe' -- Kerensky was and is universally lauded as a luminary by all European powers. He went on to live a life of peace in New York City and teach at Stanford. (Funny how any insane perversion always eventually comes around to an academic in an American university!)

The Bolshevik revolution that came in October was a right-of-center reactionary revolt that tried to fix the hot mess made of the country during the two liberal revolutions. The so-called 'communists' never held to any coherent ideology, they were thugs who tried to fix existing problems as they came along.

Lileks thinks of the importance of the Holocaust in terms of the lessons it holds. That's tertiary. It's the lives lost, the vast forest of family trees of a great people that was mown down, diminishing today and the whole future of mankind far beyond our capacity to even begin to comprehend.

It's like saying that losing an arm was the most important event of your year because it taught you not to stand too close to heavy machinery. No, it's the most important event of the year because you lost your fricking arm.

The Bolshevik revolution that came in October was a right-of-center reactionary revolt that tried to fix the hot mess made of the country during the two liberal revolutions. The so-called 'communists' never held to any coherent ideology, they were thugs who tried to fix existing problems as they came along.

@101: "Lileks thinks of the importance of the Holocaust in terms of the lessons it holds. That's tertiary. It's the lives lost, the vast forest of family trees of a great people that was mown down, diminishing today and the whole future of mankind far beyond our capacity to even begin to comprehend."

I disagree. Liles has adopted the Jewish perspective. The Holocaust really WAS the great mower-downer of the Jewish people, and therefore is and should be their great national focus ... as should Katyn be for the Poles, the Gypsy extermination in WWII be for the Gypsies, the 1994 Tutsi extermination be for the Tutsis, and the Armenian extermination be for Armenians. This is only right and proper.

The problem is that the Jewish tragedy has been projected upon the entire world as "The Biggest Tragedy Evah!" Jewish suffering has been universalized and sacralized like no other in the history of the world.

The Jewish Holocaust was sad, surely, but what earthly reason exists for global prostration and genuflection of Jewish demographic suffering as opposed to the continuous and on-going suffering of everyone else (and particularly one's own people)?

The Jewish desire to universalize their own suffering is understandable. We all like to be the center of attention. But it is foolish and unhealthy to believe it will be worshipped forever by every nation on the planet. Different nations have different cultures and mythologies of triumph and tragedy. Expecting everyone to commiserate is silly.

In South Africa, for example, the natives are finding commemorations of whites triumphing over blacks (or vice versa) to be particularly irksome.

I ask you, what Zulu worth his salt sees the slaughter of the British at Isandlwana as a mournful tragedy? Not a one. To the Zulu the Battle of Isandlwana was the greatest Zulu triumph in history!

A Zulu who goes to Isandlwana to grieve over the heroic British dead is a sick Uncle Tom whose mind has been colonized.

Lilek's mind has similarly been colonized ... as have the Germans (and Europeans in general). Lilek has universalized another people's suffering as more important than his own. As his own home town (Fargo, ND) is "deconstructed" by thousands of violent Third World peasants, he cannot bring himself to utter a peep of protest. He truly is a sad, sad man, sitting at home taking pictures of all his matchbooks and bemoaning anti-Semitism.

I read that piece yesterday, the one by Walter H, and I thought that it was a dreadfully poor piece of reasoning. It is amazing that simple reason has left the building. How did we go from "become an American, it is the greatest country on the planet", to multicultural? The long march through the institutions? Sad to say they are winning, but fight to the death! My take, the left never compromises, we allow the window to slide left. Mr Trump is pushing it right, by himself! Thus his support..., an interesting global warming aided summer is afoot, it will be fun!, and unfortunately dangerous.

There are many things to be learned from the holocaust. From my perspective, however, the most important (and by a huge margin) is that human beings will calmly, politely and patiently wait in line to be mass-murdered. Husbands standing next to wives, mothers holding their children. Waiting to be incinerated.

"Lilek has universalized another people's suffering as more important than his own." My point was that the suffering of the Jews a great suffering, not just for the Jews, but for all of mankind. If I meant to refer just to the injury to the Jews I would not have likened the Holocaust to the loss of an arm. I would have called it the loss of an arm and a leg and an eye and an ear. It is only from the point of view of humanity as a whole that it can be seen as only the loss of an arm.

But just because the holocaust can reasonably be regarded as the greatest crime that in no way lessens the magnitude of other crimes that vie for the title of worst: the Turkish genocide of the Armenians, Stalin's murder of 40 million yeoman, Mao's murder of 70 million of everybody. Islam and socialism (both nationalist and communist) are the two grand murder conspiracies of world history. The individual acknowledgment of their crimes only reinforces condemnation of the others.

Post a Comment

Rules of the blogPlease do not comment as "Anonymous". Comments by "Anonymous" will be spammed.